Hey pal I feel your pain. I have had similar problems with windows xp in the
past. If you have a floppy drive you can go to windows knowledge base and
search for start up on floppy disk. you will need 6- 3.5 1.44mb floppy
disks. you must format each disk by inserting it into your drive and then
right click. select format. At the bottom of the window that appears you will
see a choice for MS DOS start up. click on this option and then click start
format. do this for all 6 disks. Hang on a sec, let me see if I can find the
address for
you.{http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?q=download+set+up+boot+disks+for+Vista&qsc0=0&SearchBtn0=Search&FORM=QBME1&l=1&mkt=en-US&PageType=99}
Past this address into your browser and you may find some help there. I'm
assuming that your using Vista simply because this is a Vista forum so the
web address I pasted(be sure to leave the brackets out when you paste. The
set up and boot discs brought back my machine I hope they will work for you.
When you are done loading all 6 disks you will have some choices. you can
hope the problem has been repaired, you can go into camand prompt, this one
can be tough or you can repair. for repair you will need an original
installation disk. If your install was oem then you had the option of burning
a recovery disk from a partition on your hard drive. If you do go into camand
prompt be aware that you can cause damage so be sure of what you are doing.
Good luck
Zeal to learn


"linotsi" wrote:
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> HELP! I am not incredibly talented in such problems but would love
> someone to help me through this. I was having problems with my half a
> year old Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop for the last few days. First it
> looked like I lost my Symantec Virus Protector and than I would get the
> Blue Screen of Death after a while every time I booted up. The last
> straw came when I turned on my computer and it would, after the bottom
> startup bars went a few times, to a black screen where I got an error
> message stating :
>
> Logon UI.exe - Bad Image
> C:\Windows\system 32\authui.dll
> Not designed to run on windows or error (reinstall prgram again)
>
> Or something to that effect.
>
> After which, I have a black screen and cursor and nothing else. I tried
> to start in Safe Mode but same thing.
>
> Please could really use some help as I am currently consulting in
> Central Asia and really need my computer!
>
> Best,
>
> Linotsi
>
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